Posted by Pete on Friday, June 20, 2003 at 7:49PM :
In Reply to: Phillips Performance Straight 6 parts posted by Joel on Friday, June 20, 2003 at 4:06PM :
I've heard that the Phillips Performance parts are un-available as they have gone out of business. There are other sources out there however, if you look long enough.
I bought a new finned aluminum head, now being made by Earl Edgerton, go to http://www.edgycams.com or contact info. Earl will do your cam too, that's his main business by the way. He has several grinds, mild to wild. I've heard that he is in the process of developing an intake and headers too. Worth asking about.
My intake is an Edmund's dual water heated intake, made sometime in the late fifties/ early sixties? Don't know for sure, but I found it on Ebay and paid $190 for it. The air cleaner cover is from Hot Rod and Custom Supply. I bought a firewall mount Finned coil cover too, going to put it right above the finned head on the firewall. I want to make a cool wire loom, maybe polished tubes like you see on flathead fords, for the wires to run in. I will be using clear red plug wires for that '50s look.
Langdon's Stovebolt Six is selling the Offenhauser version of the intake, for about $180 I think. It is not water heated however, so he also sells a heat plate of some sort. I got my carbs from Langdon's too, a pair of Holley 5200's. Also, I bought Langdon's Mini HEI distributor for the flatty. It's based on the '82-'84 GM 2.8L truck setup. Uses stock replacement parts, and is a direct replacement of the factory mopar unit. Round coil is $10 extra. Langdon's website is http://www.stoveboltengineco.com/index2.htm. Go to the "inliners rides" section and then to "under the hood" for a couple shots of Elmer Strange's killer 265 with the HEI and a vintage Edmund's head.
I tried for over a two year period to get ahold of Phillips Performance (last I heard, they have closed their doors for good), the speed parts supplier for Plydo and others, because I wanted a set of the cast headers. I finally gave up and had my original manifold split by Mike Yoder of Kansas Kustoms. He does excellent work. Once they are coated, they look like factory parts. Cost was $165 including sandblasting and shipping. A custom set of tube headers would probably give you better performance, but the split was easier for me. Mikes contact info can be found on the www.inliners.org site under 12port advertisers.
Vintage Power Wagons was my source for everything non-speed-related for the engine.
My engine isn't for a Power Wagon, but it is a 230, used in the Power Wagon Truck as well as mopar cars of the era. It will power my '50 plymouth.
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